CCA Expanded
Our state-of-the-art learning, making, and teaching environment connects students and disciplines like never before.
CCA is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our newly expanded campus includes 82,305 square feet of space for teaching, making, and exhibiting art. The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
A connected campus
Classrooms and studios for every program are now located together in San Francisco, offering even more crossover opportunities for the talented artists and designers to learn from faculty—and each other. Our students now live, learn, eat, study, and relax on our residential campus, which includes two residence halls, Founders Hall and Blattner Hall.
![A graphic with nested green squares has the text "Making Futures" and "Carrying [creativity] forward" in white, pixelated font. Along with the "CCA expanding" logo in the top right.](https://media.cca.edu/images/MF_weekend-1to1-internal-v1_r2.2e16d0ba.fill-800x800.png)
A view from the Hooper Pavilion.
CCA’s innovative new building in San Francisco extends our main campus, featuring a dynamic, multilayered hub of indoor-outdoor makerspaces, art studios, and social areas, connected by a terraced landscape offering stunning views and ample space for collaboration and creativity. Our extension offers:
- Abundant shared green spaces
- Interactive maker yards
- Adaptable spaces to create
- Gallery space
- A lecture hall
- More opportunities for interdisciplinary learning
Sustainability at the forefront
Designed by a team led by award-winning architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, the open, transparent design will connect our programs in exciting new ways. Built with sustainable features and amenities, the lower level of Double Ground includes shops, studios, and labs which open into shared maker yards. The upper level features a park-like atmosphere with green space and places to gather, adjacent to CCA's main campus building.
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Aug. 23, 2024
It’s an exciting time at California College of the Arts! 🎉 This October, we’re opening the doors to our expanded campus and stepping into our next chapter. All are welcome to join us as we celebrate the past, present, and future of the college.
Saturday, October 19
Opening Ceremony 4 pm
Campus Housewarming 5-8 pm
@wattisarts Exhibition Reception 5-8 pm
📍 145 Hooper Street, San Francisco
More info at [cca.edu/making-futures]
Aug. 19, 2024
New CCA @baggu just for you :)
Available for purchase at @archsupplies.
Aug. 18, 2024
Cohort 9 just finished their one-year, intensive graduate program in Interaction Design ✅ They spent the last year solving important problems and using design to create better relationships among people, products, and environments worldwide. Congrats, @ccamdesixd!
Aug. 16, 2024
In the summer, @ccacomics keeps our campus alive with color and community. Every summer, the low-residency program is on campus for four weeks for in-person courses, workshops, exhibitions, and readings. Swipe to see some pics from this summer.💥
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